~Sweet Pea~ posted:Good morning
a lovely sunny day here
thank you all for the bird feeder advice
I know a lovely little shop locally where I can get exactly what I need #excited!
How are you all today?
Looking forward to updates
Loving the new name. I love sweet peas.
El Loro posted:Summer, I'd be surprised if I saw a lamb on my lunch break as that would mean one has wandered into my house
Years ago I had been in the back garden and came back in the house via the kitchen (I'd left that door open as I had come in to get something and was going back out). I had gone into another room, When I came back I saw a woman with her dog standing in the kitchen. She was someone who went to the same church and she lived in a house further down the road so she wasn't a complete stranger. She claimed that her dog had run off and had wandered into my kitchen. I didn't challenge her but I knew she wasn't being truthful, She was notorious for being nosy and just wanted to see inside my house. She left after a couple of minutes. where I live, people don't just wander into other people's houses.
She was nosy and rude, El.
night everyone
summer if you pop in
El Loro posted:Yogi, that woman couldn't have been in my kitchen more than a few seconds before I came in. Presumably she would have looked thoughout the house if she had had the chance. She would have known that it was me living there.
What a terrible intrusion, El
Good morning everyone
Quite sunny and mild here.
We had the tiddlers overnight - son picked them up this morning to take them to school and nursery. They were as good as gold.
Have a good day, whatever you have planned.
Good morning not a cloud in the sky here, itâs a beautiful day! How did you all sleep?
El, that womanâs behaviour is shocking, some people have some front donât they! I wouldnât dare
Aw happy tiddlers I love it
Good morning everyone, very misty this morning. The tree surgeons are here cutting down some nuisance trees that were self-seeded, nothing but tall weeds, so it's a little on the noisy side. I love sweet peas
Lovely picture of sweet peas, Squiggle
Summer, the incident with the woman coming in to my kitchen happened many years ago. I doubt that she's still alive as she would be very old - she must have gone into a home as the garden at her bungalow became overgrown before it was sold and the new owners restored the place - that was quite some time ago. The people I spoke to at church about her said that she was known for being a snoop.
I've just finished doing the first lawn mowing of the year. I would have done it a couple of weeks ago but left it due to the rain during the first half of the month so gave it a chance to dry out. It was more grass than normal as a result - effectively a double quantity.
Re the music used on the current KFC advert. It's noticably Italian, sweeping and darkly romantic. It's by Nino Rota, one of the major Italian composers of film music (Ennio Moricone is another). It's from The Godfather which is a film I've never seen as I'm not a fan of gangster films. I'll post an audio only clip of it as it's likely that if you haven't ever seen the film you probably chose not. It's described as the love theme.
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, very misty this morning. The tree surgeons are here cutting down some nuisance trees that were self-seeded, nothing but tall weeds, so it's a little on the noisy side. I love sweet peas
Enjoy your day everyone
Beautiful sweet peas
El Loro posted:I've just finished doing the first lawn mowing of the year. I would have done it a couple of weeks ago but left it due to the rain during the first half of the month so gave it a chance to dry out. It was more grass than normal as a result - effectively a double quantity.
Well done, El. Our grass is still a bit wet but the first cut will need done soon
El Loro posted:Re the music used on the current KFC advert. It's noticably Italian, sweeping and darkly romantic. It's by Nino Rota, one of the major Italian composers of film music (Ennio Moricone is another). It's from The Godfather which is a film I've never seen as I'm not a fan of gangster films. I'll post an audio only clip of it as it's likely that if you haven't ever seen the film you probably chose not. It's described as the love theme.
Not my kind of film either, although I have seen little snippets when MrY watched it and I was I the room.
Sometimes on a Friday the PM programme on Radio 4 includes something a bit different unconnected with news. Today it included a reading by members of the public of Wordsworth "To My Sister" and in the background there was some music though they didn't say what it was. To me it sounded like someting of Frederick Delius and I was able to identify it - On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring:
And the poem:
To My Sister
It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.
My sister! (âtis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.
Edward will come with youâand, pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
Weâll give to idleness.
No joyless forms shall regulate
Our living calendar:
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
âIt is the hour of feeling.
One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.
Some silent laws our hearts will make,
Which they shall long obey:
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.
And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above,
Weâll frame the measure of our souls:
They shall be tuned to love.
Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
Weâll give to idleness.
El Loro posted:Yogi, I would have been surprised if you had wanted to watch The Godfather
You know me so well
El Loro posted:Sometimes on a Friday the PM programme on Radio 4 includes something a bit different unconnected with news. Today it included a reading by members of the public of Wordsworth "To My Sister" and in the background there was some music though they didn't say what it was. To me it sounded like someting of Frederick Delius and I was able to identify it - On Hearing the First Cuckoo of Spring:
And the poem:
To My Sister
It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before
The redbreast sings from the tall larch
That stands beside our door.There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field.My sister! (âtis a wish of mine)
Now that our morning meal is done,
Make haste, your morning task resign;
Come forth and feel the sun.Edward will come with youâand, pray,
Put on with speed your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
Weâll give to idleness.No joyless forms shall regulate
Our living calendar:
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.Love, now a universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
âIt is the hour of feeling.One moment now may give us more
Than years of toiling reason:
Our minds shall drink at every pore
The spirit of the season.Some silent laws our hearts will make,
Which they shall long obey:
We for the year to come may take
Our temper from to-day.And from the blessed power that rolls
About, below, above,
Weâll frame the measure of our souls:
They shall be tuned to love.Then come, my Sister! come, I pray,
With speed put on your woodland dress;
And bring no book: for this one day
Weâll give to idleness.
Lovely, El
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros
Hug for any night owls
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Yogi, that woman couldn't have been in my kitchen more than a few seconds before I came in. Presumably she would have looked thoughout the house if she had had the chance. She would have known that it was me living there.
What a terrible intrusion, El
TBH think that is a bit scary EL -terrible
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:Re the music used on the current KFC advert. It's noticably Italian, sweeping and darkly romantic. It's by Nino Rota, one of the major Italian composers of film music (Ennio Moricone is another). It's from The Godfather which is a film I've never seen as I'm not a fan of gangster films. I'll post an audio only clip of it as it's likely that if you haven't ever seen the film you probably chose not. It's described as the love theme.
Not my kind of film either, although I have seen little snippets when MrY watched it and I was I the room.
have seen it but not really my style-was much younger
Yogi19 posted:El Loro posted:I've just finished doing the first lawn mowing of the year. I would have done it a couple of weeks ago but left it due to the rain during the first half of the month so gave it a chance to dry out. It was more grass than normal as a result - effectively a double quantity.
Well done, El.
did ours last weekend it was desperate
squiggle posted:Good morning everyone, very misty this morning. The tree surgeons are here cutting down some nuisance trees that were self-seeded, nothing but tall weeds, so it's a little on the noisy side. I love sweet peas
Enjoy your day everyone
Love sweet peas as well-grow them every year-those are gorgeous
night yogi summer if you pop in
Lovely pic squiggle my dad used to grow sweet peas for me, I still adore them now.
El, well done on your grass cutting 
sweet dreams gang, the weekend is almost here!
Good morning everyone
El, I hope you donât need to go out in the fog. Driving in fog is a strain and gives me a headache
A dry and mild day. I was up early and the birds were singing.
Have a good day, all.
Good morning everyone, beautifully sunny now that the mist has all burned off.
Enjoy your day everyone
You may have seen this on the BBC news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47756250/
Criminals selling purchase invoices to people to use to claim tax relief and reclaim VAT.
Obviously illegal and those caught will get sent to prison, both those selling the invoices and those using them. Those using them when caught would have to explain how they paid for the invoices - what was the source of the cash used to pay them - that's how HMRC would challenge people as their declared income wouldn't explain it. Those using the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, would have to pay the underpaid tax + 100% penalties + interest. Those selling the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, face money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act as would thise using them, and the penalties would also include cash seizure.
El Loro posted:Thanks Yogi
Iâm glad the fog didnât cause you serious problems.
El Loro posted:You may have seen this on the BBC news:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-47756250/Criminals selling purchase invoices to people to use to claim tax relief and reclaim VAT.
Obviously illegal and those caught will get sent to prison, both those selling the invoices and those using them. Those using them when caught would have to explain how they paid for the invoices - what was the source of the cash used to pay them - that's how HMRC would challenge people as their declared income wouldn't explain it. Those using the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, would have to pay the underpaid tax + 100% penalties + interest. Those selling the invoices would, besides a prison sentence, face money laundering offences under the Proceeds of Crime Act as would thise using them, and the penalties would also include cash seizure.
People who do this, deserve to get caught.
Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros.
Hug for any night owls
night yogi summer
Good morning âïļ happy motherâs day to you all Iâm going to pick up my mum shortly and dedicate the day to doing whatever she wants
El, Iâm glad Cheltenham have had a successful weekend
